iCAMView support

325xi · May 24, 2009, 6:06pm

iCAMView http://www.icamview.com makes very interesting range of affordable network cameras: night vision, outdoor, bullet, snake, etc.
The actual web server placed into a tiny separate box, cameras connect via USB. Server supports USB hubs and Wi-Fi dongles, which makes it all very flexible.

Some of them are Pan-Tilt, but control API and image path are different from the supported Panasonic defaults.

Can you guys add support for iCAMView line?

cj1 · May 25, 2009, 1:42pm

After releasing LuaUPnP, adding support for different devices would be possible, directly in the lua plugin, without modifying anything in the C++ code.

drzeller · May 25, 2009, 1:46pm

Do you have an ETA on the LuaPNP - in terms of weeks, months, “it’s so freakin’ complicated we’re losing hope,” etc?

D.

325xi · May 25, 2009, 1:58pm

As far as I remember, the original idea was to make Vera easy enough to be used by… my grandma. How do you see it - grandma would have to learn LUA for that little camera overlooking her carrots in the backyard; or you’re planning to make a repository of scripts so users can simply download and use whatever they need?

cj1 · May 25, 2009, 6:18pm

The ETA it’s about an week for the apha version.
We’ll have a repository from where users would have the possibility to upload/download lua plugins.
Using Vera it’s simple ( turn on lights/ setting temperature/ adding lock codes/ creating scenes etc)
Adding new devices templates using lua plugin it will be also simple for someone that has an idee about programming.
When your grandma will buy her IP camera, it will ask the dealer if it’s working with Vera. If it won’t the dealer will make a plugin to make it work or ask us to make one, and your grandma will watch happily her carrots ;D

325xi · May 25, 2009, 6:43pm

I can imagine this grandma talking to BestBuy boys and girls to write her LUA plugin for Vera for this Logitech camera on sale

Given how much is planned on LUA now, and how (no offence) wimpy the hardware is, how much of LUA tweaking can 500g really take before it goes bananas on insufficient memory, or just plain CPU overload?